Fall Out Boy Team With 'Gimme Shelter' Director For Rock Doc

Back in September, as headset-wearing producers and stern-looking dudes in tool belts scurried in and out of Fall Out Boy's Fantasy Suite at the Palms Hotel and Casino, bassist Pete Wentz stood in the hallway, looking somewhat bewildered and talking to guitarist Joe Trohman about his desire to have someone "document all this crazy sh--."

Well, it looks like he found his man. In keeping with pretty much everything Wentz does, it's a rather surprising choice: legendary documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles, one-half of the team that made the Rolling Stones' seminal "Gimme Shelter" tour film and later, "Grey Gardens," a look at a pair of aging socialites living in a crumbling mansion in the Hamptons.

It's a particularly amazing moment for FOB, and to be honest, they're still not really sure how it happened. (...)

Source Mtv News

Kylie Minogue Claims OBE On Queen's Honours List

KYLIE MINOGUE has a very special reason to celebrate the New Year - she has learned she'll pick up an Order of the British Empire (OBE) medal after landing a place on British monarch Queen Elizabet II's New Year Honours List.

The cancer survivor, 39, has been a beloved Australian export in her adopted Britain for more than 20 years, and has sold more than 60 million records worldwide. (...) Minogue isn't the only music star on the Honours List; JethroTull singer/flautist Ian Anderson becomes a Member of The Order of The British Empire (MBE), and Soul II Soul hitmaker Jazzie B, aka Trevor Romeo, is awarded an OBE.

Source Contact Music

Bad Religion: 2008 Tour Dates

Bad Religion have fleshed out the California/Nevada show scheduled for February March.

Recent reports suggested the band may have limited touring plans in the new year due to Academic commitments by vocalist and Life Sciences professor Greg Graffin at UCLA.

TOUR DATES

February 29, 2008 House of Blues Anaheim Anaheim, CA
March 1, 2008 House of Blues Anaheim Anaheim, CA
March 2, 2008 House of Blues Anaheim Anaheim, CA
March 4, 2008 House of Blues Sunset Strip West Hollywood, CA
March 5, 2008 House of Blues Sunset Strip West Hollywood, CA
March 7, 2008 House of Blues San Diego San Diego, CA
March 21, 2008 House of Blues Anaheim Anaheim, CA
March 29, 2008 House of Blues Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV

Source PunkNews

Peaches: New Year's Day Live in Los Angels

Peaches will perform live with 2 Live Crew in downtown Los Angeles at the New Year's Eve Festival. Get the tickets here

Amy Winehouse: 2007 album is UK top-seller / Summoned to Norway court

Amy Winehouse's second album Back to Black is set to be the biggest-selling album of the year. The troubled singer's soul-tinged CD, released at the end of 2006, has now sold more than 1.5m copies in the UK, achieving five platinum sales awards.

Leona Lewis's Spirit and Mika's Life in Cartoon Motion are currently the second and third best selling albums of the year, with just over a week left to go.

Winehouse was recently nominated for six Grammys including song of the year.

The 24-year-old's debut album, Frank, also sold 300,000 copies in the UK this year, despite being released in 2003. (...)

Source: BBC News

AMY SUMMONED TO NORWAY CURT

British soul singer Amy Winehouse has been summoned to appear in a Norwegian court after she was arrested and fined in the country in October for drug use, police said Thursday.

Winehouse, her husband and her hairdresser, who were briefly arrested and fined 500 euros (725 dollars) for drug use and possession of seven grammes of marijuana in the western Norwegian town of Bergen on October 18, must appear in court on February 29, Bergen police lawyer Rudolf Christoffersen told AFP.

"The Gulating court (in Bergen) sent us a letter dated December 18, 2007, stating that ... this case cannot be tried in absentia," he said. (...)

Source: Music-News

Cat Power: New Album / 2008 Tour Dates

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The new Cat Power's album 'Jukebox' will be available in shops from January 22 (a day earlier in the UK and Europe).

TOUR DATES

Tickets are now on sale for the following dates:

January 2008

Jan 21 Paris - Bataclan
Jan 27 London - Shepherds Bush Empire

February - 2008

6-NYC @ Terminal 5
7-Boston @ Orpheum Theatre
8-Philadelphia @ Starlight Ballroom
9-Toronto @ Kool Haus
10-Chicago @ Vic Theatre
11-Minneapolis @ First Avenue

source: Matador Records

Radiohead prepares for physical release of CD / New Year's Performance on Current TV

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London-based indie label XL Recordings is living up to its name by playing an extra-large role in one of 2007's biggest music industry stories after snagging the physical release of Radiohead's "In Rainbows."

The left-field rock band effectively threw the recording industry rule book out the window when it released the studio set through its own Web site October 10, allowing downloaders to set their own price.

Speculation over who would issue the album physically spiraled until October 31, when XL announced it would release the CD on New Year's Eve worldwide -- excluding the United States, where it lands the following day through Dave Matthews' ATO Records, and Japan, which sees a December 26 release through Hostess.

XL now faces several unknown factors -- not the least of which is finding out how a new album performs after being available digitally for three months.

RADIOHEAD ON TV

A special performance by Radiohead will be aired exclusively in the USA by Current TV on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. The band will be performing all of the tracks from its newest album, In Rainbows, for a taped, private, hour-long performance, which will run commercial-free on Current TV and on www.current.com simultaneously. [img] Broadcast times : Current TV* : December 31, 2007 : 9 p.m. PST / 12 a.m. EST 10 p.m. PST / 1 a.m. [...]

sources: Yahoo News - Rocksellout

Led Zeppelin 2008 Tour Plans

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LED Zeppelin will definitely be touring next year and are planning a massive show at the Millennium Stadium. But the rock legends are waiting for all the fuss surrounding their reunion to die down before announcing dates. Robert Plant, 59, Jimmy Page, 63, and John Paul Jones, 61, were thrilled with the reaction to their one-off show at London’s O2 Arena last week but won’t play again until the second half of 2008.

My source close to the Zep said: “Robert was overwhelmed by the attention but he wants the fuss to die down before doing more stuff with the band. It’ll be towards the end of the year now.”

Despite Plant announcing a separate solo tour with Alison Krauss, 36, the reformed rockers are
looking at doing a series of major gigs across the world including at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium.

source: Dailystar

Velvet Revolver 2008 Tour Dates

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Velvet Revolver have announced Dates for a 2008 U.S. theater tour. The brief trek kicks off Jan. 24 in Chicago, and is scheduled to wrap up Feb. 9 in Ventura, Calif. The rockers will follow the U.S. jaunt with a run of dates in Australia and Europe plotted out through an April 1 show in Amsterdam. As previously reported, the band will perform gigs Dec. 29 in Trenton, N.J., and Dec. 31 in New York to close out 2007.

source: Velvet Revolver -- Official Site

Green Day secret side project

Green Day

Contact Music reports: Rockers Green Day have prompted rumours of a secret side project, after fans realised new music released under the name FOXBORO HOT TUBS sounded remarkably like the band. The group are currently working on a follow-up to their 2004 disc, American Idiot, but the stark similarities in vocals between Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong and those on the Foxboro Hot Tubs' EP have got Internet blogs wondering whether the Holiday hitmakers have gone undercover to experiment with a new 1960s-inspired sound. [listen at http://www.myspace.com/foxborohottubs]

If Green Day are proven to be behind the Foxboro Hot Tubs, it would not be the first time they have released tracks under a pseudonym [Doesn't just about every emo/pop-punk singer these days try sound a bit like Billie Joe? The trick we hear is to hold your nostrils closed while singing.

source: antimusic